Barcelona

History:

Barcelona has emerged from a spotty history. With Castilian kings pumping cannonballs over the city walls and anarchists disagreeing on which shoulder
to hang their rifles, the city shrank in the shadow of greater cities and powers for centuries. Though founded around 230 BC, likely by the Carthaginians,
and invaded by the Visigoths and then the Muslims, the history of the city, in a sense, only truly began after armies from what is now France pushed back
the Muslims in 801 AD. At the time, the plains and mountains to the northwest and north of Barcelona were populated by the people who by then could be
identified as 'Catalans' (although surviving documentary references to the term only date to the 10th century). Catalan's closest linguistic relative today is t
he langue d'oc, the old language of southern France.

In the 12th century, Catalunya grew rich on pickings from the fall of the Muslim caliphate of Córdoba. The Catalans managed to keep their creative forces
alight through to the 14th century, when Barcelona ruled a mini-empire including Sicily, Malta, Sardinia, Valencia, the Balearics, the French regions of Rousillon
and Cerdagne and parts of Greece. But by the 15th century, devastated by the plague, spectacular bank crashes, and the Genoese squeezing their markets, the
empire ran out of steam. While the Catalans may have hoped that union with the kingdom of Castile would pump cash back into the coffers and vitality onto the
streets, heirs to the crowns of Castile and Aragón were more interested in juicing Catalunya to finance their own imperial ambitions.

A 1462 rebellion against King Joan II ended in a siege in 1473 that devastated the city. Barcelona was more or less annexed into the Castilian state, but
was excluded from the plundering of the Americas that brought
fantastic riches to 16th-century Castile. By now, the peasants had started to revolt. Disaffected
Catalans resorted to arms a number of times, and the last revolt, during the War of the Spanish Succession, saw Catalunya
siding with Britain and Austria against Felipe V, the ,
French contender for the Spanish throne. That was, their undoing. Barcelona fell in 1714 after another shocking siege ,
and as well as banning the Catalan language, Felipe built a huge fort, the Ciutadella, to watch over his ungrateful,
subjects in town.

Apartment Marta Barcelona
Situated to 40 m. of the beach close to Aquarium of Barcelona -10 min. walking to Santa Maria del Mar,
Gothic Quarter, cathedral and Ramblas. Public parking to 400 m. Close to bus and subway station.

Apartment Atlantida Barcelona
Situated close to the beach close to Aquarium of Barcelona -10 min. by foot of Santa Maria del
Mar, Gothic Quarter, cathedral and Ramblas.

Apartment Santa Clara Barcelona
Situated close to the beach close to Aquarium of Barcelona -10 min. by foot of Santa
Maria del Mar, Gothic Quarter, cathedral and Ramblas.

Apartment Barcelona - Playa
Situated close to the beach close to Aquarium of Barcelona -10 min. by foot of Santa
Maria del Mar, Gothic Quarter, cathedral and Ramblas.